Thistlewick

As if the next step in the plan isn’t reinstating “state’s rights”…

If the US Government condemns it, then you’re moving in the right direction.

You just got your answer: Because it is agreed that it helps all of us.

Don’t want to pay taxes? Stop drinking tap water. Don’t turn on your lights. Stop driving on the roads. Don’t seek any medical care ever. Don’t catch the bus. Don’t even look at a public park.

If everybody pays a fraction of their income, these things can be funded. If we all went it alone, do you have the money or skills to maintain the roads you drive on? If you don’t, do you think the other guy is going to do it for free? Or cheap, knowing that he has skills you don’t?

EDIT: it can be argued about the proper use of tax funds in any particular country, eg an excessive ‘defence’ budget in the US.

It’s the same complaint. If I think someone is lying to me and they later admit to lying, my feelings aren’t different on the matter. They are justified. The fight for human rights doesn’t happen by just accepting when people publicly revoke their support for you.

Can’t wait til the year 2500 when we can stop getting variations on this fact.

These are my feelings too. I loved the trilogy when each came out, and return to them at least once a year. But nice graphics aren’t enough to make me support Konami.

If Joe Bloggs next door agrees with war crimes, he’s just an arsehole.

If the head of the United Nations General Assembly agrees with war crimes, I think there’s a case to be made…

As much as I wanted to support this film in cinemas, I am so glad I missed it until it hit streaming. My wife and I spent 80% of this movie in tears because it was so touching and emotional. A beautifully made film about love and protecting those that you call family.

Finding out that the writer was also responsible for How to Train Your Dragon and the original Lilo and Stitch makes a lot of sense.

I think the movie was on par with other Marvel movies at the time. A lot of misogynists got to hide behind the fact that it wasn’t a great movie, but the fact that this film regularly gets called the “worst” when it was preceded by Eternals (a dry, over-serious slog); Love and Thunder (a disjointed comedy(?) with poor writing); Wakanda Forever (I actually couldn’t tell you what this one was about it was so forgettable); and Quantumania (the failed launch of Kang that was a CGI nightmare) is absurd to me.

All of the movies I mentioned are fun if you take them for what they are, and The Marvels was a basic “superheroes fight bad guy from their past” story with a fun twist.

I think it also got pushback because it was the first film which explicitly had required reading (Wandavision and Ms Marvel), but this is the MCU. Every movie these days is linked to some other product.

Doom Eternal? The game with a soundtrack that was made up of butchered parts of Gordon’s work, welded together by a novice, at the command of an egotistical dickhead who slandered Gordon after the fact?

https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce

Eternals original OST was very poor compared to Doom 2016. Big reason I never bothered with the game.

Find something you enjoy (or might enjoy), and look for groups that do that thing. Groups that run regular events or classes or workshops are good because new people are always coming into the hobby. Keep in mind that just because you share interests with someone does not mean you will be instant friends, or friends at all. That’s why the activity is important. You can focus on doing something fun while you connect with new people, rather than stressing about if this specific person is going to be your friend.

He’s not, but the people who make money from reporting the dumb shit he says are.

Stories about illegal deportations have dried up, but Kilmar Abrego Garcia still isn’t home. And you can be sure he wasn’t the only one ripped from his country for no good reason over the last few months.

Silly stories about gold planes get more reactive views though. More money. Keeps the people from realising how bad the things that matter have really gotten. Over time the flood of silly stories drowns out the real news so that the really vile things done in this presidency look like tiny hiccups on a timeline of silliness. It makes people say things like “He’s not that smart”. But it’s not him writing the stories.